Today, we resumed the Dyeing to Paint sessions after a bit of a summer break! And, what a lovely day it was. Always organised Isobelle came along with some compressed sponge to show us how wonderfully effective it can be.

Fiona breezed in with some new paint rollers which everyone seemed to be very jealous of – they have now gone down on the must have list!

Hilary, just returned from Morocco, wowed everyone with the beautiful threads that she had picked up on her travels.

Her patience, which she usually has shed loads of, got tested though when she started to wind the thread onto card. She seems to have got in a bit of a pickle?

She soon moved onto working on her fabric collage, which is coming along very nicely.

Chris joined us for the first time and seemed to have enjoyed having a go with the markel stiks and fabric transfer paint. She was highly amused that she managed to produce WC backwards!?

Monica tried out her new markel stiks with freezer paper and plastic stencils.

And, everyone was delighted to welcome Ann who is experienced and talented when it comes to paint.

If you can remember back a couple of months ago we told you about a wall hanging that we were planning to make to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lakesdie Primary School in Cardiff.

Well, after a period of time planning and gathering resources we have made a start with the school children. Today, we visited to work with children in the reception class. The focus was on getting each child (90 of them) to put their hand print on fabric.

Jess was in charge of recruiting the children. Ready and eager they all stepped up to load their hands with paint

Pam then guided the children to Hilary who helped them stamp on the fabric

And finally, Clare helped them clean the paint off before going back in to class. All precision engineered by the group which gave a great end result!